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we want everybody to enjoy the riches of technology. we want them to enjoy the economy in san francisco. that is why we're working so hard to make sure our central marketplace is welcoming of all these technology companies, making sure that we can work with other cities. i am very lucky to be part of the u.s. conference of mayors, and they allow me to represent san francisco as the innovative center for all the rest of the cities across the country. so we get to compare information and there. what these days i will get to talk to you while i am in washington, d.c., and you can hear what i am saying across there, so we can enjoy it -- wherever i go, you know i will be working and not fooling around. finally, we also are using technology to join our private companies in hiring san franciscans. hopefully some of your kids, some of your grandkids as well, are going to enjoy some of these great jobs in san francisco, because the companies that are here, many of them have agreed to use the virtual hiring practice called hiresf.org and share t
we want everybody to enjoy the riches of technology. we want them to enjoy the economy in san francisco. that is why we're working so hard to make sure our central marketplace is welcoming of all these technology companies, making sure that we can work with other cities. i am very lucky to be part of the u.s. conference of mayors, and they allow me to represent san francisco as the innovative center for all the rest of the cities across the country. so we get to compare information and there....
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and medical technology. where you see all the change across those areas what quickly happens is you start to see the overlap between those different areas. we have a convergence track as well. one of the tracks specifically is what happens if we get our faculty from medicine and the faculty from robotics head to head saying this technology is coming and what it can lead to? >> gavin: you brought in another example, you have a tablet on top of a book. >> this is a new tablet. you really want get these yet from a copy from data wind from india. data wind has innovated taking not the latest and greatest technologies but the ones just before that. we have all the iphones and they cost $600. what about the ones from a year ago? the computer power from that is still better than anything that has gone into space right? what if you take that old technology, old by a year, but it's old and put it in something else, what can you do with it? now this tablet is called the acosh tablet in india. they had a version called
and medical technology. where you see all the change across those areas what quickly happens is you start to see the overlap between those different areas. we have a convergence track as well. one of the tracks specifically is what happens if we get our faculty from medicine and the faculty from robotics head to head saying this technology is coming and what it can lead to? >> gavin: you brought in another example, you have a tablet on top of a book. >> this is a new tablet. you...
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not in technology. as a result the controller presented a city budget for technology of just under $200 million. through our interviews with technology leadership we were told that amount is under estimated by ten to 20% or more due to the differences of what to include. actual expenditures presented more difficult picture. some departments use non technology people to perform technology assignments and hiding the expenses outside of technology. actual cost of city wide projects are blurred as the examples shows. no one knows for sure how much is being spent, how much is being saved. without comprehensive information there is no way to evaluate the success of ict city wide consolidations. we found no analysis where cost savings would come from from department to department or any of the consolidations. isn't there a reason to evaluate them on an ongoing basis? for that focused data is needed. it's not done now. either is a data base for personnel city wide and match needs with talent and ability. we don
not in technology. as a result the controller presented a city budget for technology of just under $200 million. through our interviews with technology leadership we were told that amount is under estimated by ten to 20% or more due to the differences of what to include. actual expenditures presented more difficult picture. some departments use non technology people to perform technology assignments and hiding the expenses outside of technology. actual cost of city wide projects are blurred as...
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the technology is what creates a disability. the other believe that we have is that it is important to step back from what we know at listen to our clients. has to stop putting our beliefs on them. we have to look at where people are coming from with technology. and figure out what the issues are that they are having. the big question that we often asked is, when someone is struggling, is that a disability issue or a learning curve issue? we find that the disability issues are the easy fixes. the small print, hard to use a mouse, all of that is very easy to fix. the learning curve issues are really the hard ones for most people. most seniors and don't have a tool box of strategies for dealing with technology. we were more able to figure things out. i may not know where the downloads folder is, but i know it exists. i might have trouble finding it, but i know it is there. for someone that doesn't speak technology as well as i do, they don't know how to look for it. if you are someone i have an analogy for you. how many people her
the technology is what creates a disability. the other believe that we have is that it is important to step back from what we know at listen to our clients. has to stop putting our beliefs on them. we have to look at where people are coming from with technology. and figure out what the issues are that they are having. the big question that we often asked is, when someone is struggling, is that a disability issue or a learning curve issue? we find that the disability issues are the easy fixes....
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in order to commercialize the technology a company called. the medicine is only dropped into the eyes the potential adverse side effects are much smaller there was something like a tablet take orally regardless traditional tests on animals and then human clinical trials had to be passed to receive the go ahead from russian health regulators earlier in two thousand and twelve and at the moment they're working on having it approved by western health agencies. the resulting eyedrops are targeted at relieving chronic dry eyes this interim can lead to increasingly impaired vision and in some cases eventually blindness but these russian made drugs are able to do much more than levy dry eyes. there are techniques to find out how many cells have died as a result of. the war programmed cell death that would. give you a totally different picture. they greatly decrease the number. of. disappeared my myopia dropped from minus seven down to minus three point five diopters. pressure has reduced which is a sign that the glaucoma has grown. with russian regu
in order to commercialize the technology a company called. the medicine is only dropped into the eyes the potential adverse side effects are much smaller there was something like a tablet take orally regardless traditional tests on animals and then human clinical trials had to be passed to receive the go ahead from russian health regulators earlier in two thousand and twelve and at the moment they're working on having it approved by western health agencies. the resulting eyedrops are targeted...
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we have the technology. we have the capability to make the world first by mixing man and machine to enhance the human body but it was for the better stronger but a scientific community believes it will become a reality in the coming decades beatrice ray kurzweil predicts the year twenty forty five will be the technological tipping point he's an award winning scientist and engineer a millionaire several times over because of his invention kurz wells theory is chronicled in film director barry potomac as transcendent man something radical is going to happen because our technology is speeding up we think that this is going to stop we're going to hit a wall somewhere well technology is advancing at an exponential rate for example just a few decades ago the fire power in this iphone once took up entire rooms but with technology rapidly getting faster and smaller it's believe that the hardware and this phone will be able to fit into our blood cells the vast supercomputers of the future only twenty years from now w
we have the technology. we have the capability to make the world first by mixing man and machine to enhance the human body but it was for the better stronger but a scientific community believes it will become a reality in the coming decades beatrice ray kurzweil predicts the year twenty forty five will be the technological tipping point he's an award winning scientist and engineer a millionaire several times over because of his invention kurz wells theory is chronicled in film director barry...
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technology is a highly dynamic and ever changing field. no one can predict the five years of technology or what talent will be required. of your cell phone. the administrator requires a staffing plan. doesn't exist. there maybe hurdles to overcome but hiring as permanent exempt is better than the traditional civil service for technology. it reduces time to hire. it raises proakt of attracting top talent. it means hiring mistakes can be corrected easily. it's done elsewhere in the city. lawyers and our attorney departments do have at will status for the same reasons as we find with technology. isn't it worth the effort to match talent with what is needed? culture is a mighty force. it provides comfort in it's traditions. it's a safe haven u because it's tried and accepted. it's reinforced because it's troublesome to change but culture all blinds to the other ways of doing things evening if the other ways hint of doing better. it stifles and shuts down i thinking. it doesn't anticipate the unintended consequences of changing times. this gran
technology is a highly dynamic and ever changing field. no one can predict the five years of technology or what talent will be required. of your cell phone. the administrator requires a staffing plan. doesn't exist. there maybe hurdles to overcome but hiring as permanent exempt is better than the traditional civil service for technology. it reduces time to hire. it raises proakt of attracting top talent. it means hiring mistakes can be corrected easily. it's done elsewhere in the city. lawyers...
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this one regarding the technology system is quite extensive. i want to thank the civil grand jury for putting our paces with this one and we will have some dialogue and we might have questions along the way and with that president chiu do you want to take charge here? >> sure. first of all i wanted to note it's interesting no one wanted to speak in public comment on this item. i know there have been folks focused on these questions for a long time and probably city staffers watching this hearing not sharing their shoats and i am looking and the policy makers are looking to have an open dialogue with these moatings and what i find in coit meetings everyone agrees and projects take 15 years and millions of dollars over budget to get done and i am getting frankly frustrated and tired about that, so i encourage city staffers and others who have an opinion on this and feel free to raise them in coit meetings or contact my office and i am willing to have more private conversations and i think having an open dialogue how we strengthen our operations.
this one regarding the technology system is quite extensive. i want to thank the civil grand jury for putting our paces with this one and we will have some dialogue and we might have questions along the way and with that president chiu do you want to take charge here? >> sure. first of all i wanted to note it's interesting no one wanted to speak in public comment on this item. i know there have been folks focused on these questions for a long time and probably city staffers watching this...
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technology it's not surprising that they were at the heart of any big news on the topic. traditionally speaking. the best performance. is relatively young as the delicate tissue tends to tear as a result mechanical valves are often the way to go and that which is just the most recent evolution of these men made. the first mechanical. back in one thousand fifty two. definite limitations and they proved that synthetic materials could be. proved in the one nine hundred sixty s. with the advent of the so-called. which could be implanted inside the heart itself unlike with previous models later in the decade made their debut. but these still work perfect. for the position of. they create some amount of resistance. the pressure is generally as high as thirty forty or even fifty millimeters of mercury we figured out that it would be impossible to remove this obstacle as long as the leaflets were in the middle of the blood so we decided to place them outside the ring. for. those coming off the lines here. the materials obtained from ordinary natural gas. temperatures up to fiftee
technology it's not surprising that they were at the heart of any big news on the topic. traditionally speaking. the best performance. is relatively young as the delicate tissue tends to tear as a result mechanical valves are often the way to go and that which is just the most recent evolution of these men made. the first mechanical. back in one thousand fifty two. definite limitations and they proved that synthetic materials could be. proved in the one nine hundred sixty s. with the advent of...
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or to commercialize the technology a company called. the medicine is only dropped into the potential adverse side effects are much smaller than with something like a. traditional. in human clinical trials had to be passed the go ahead from russian health regulators earlier in two thousand and twelve at the moment they're working on having it approved by western health agencies. are targeted at relieving chronic. increasingly impaired vision and in some cases eventually blindness to these russian made drops are able to do much more. to find out how many cells have died as a result of. the. different picture when used extensively they greatly decrease the number of tissue sections effected by. any true scientist dr. as the first guinea pig even before he got the russian regulatory green. in my opinion the results pretty much speak for themselves. i'm very short sighted i started suffering from cataracts and i've had for years. as a result of using the eye drops of the cataract disappeared my myopia dropped from minus seven down. but surel
or to commercialize the technology a company called. the medicine is only dropped into the potential adverse side effects are much smaller than with something like a. traditional. in human clinical trials had to be passed the go ahead from russian health regulators earlier in two thousand and twelve at the moment they're working on having it approved by western health agencies. are targeted at relieving chronic. increasingly impaired vision and in some cases eventually blindness to these...
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we better be careful about modified foods inindicate they are worse than existing technology. i think this world is great. t it is a veil of tears compared to what we could achieve. >> and could achieve. , thank you, matt ridley. coming up, who wants do go into space? soon we will all be able to go there. i talk about how innovation makes life better but where is the innovation coming from? politicians say from government. the big success story is america putting a man on the moon but think about it, yes, nasa put a man on the moon but they spent billions and have not been back in 40 years. by contrast, an organization called x prize is offering a prize and now a space ship launched tee people into space. they won $10 million. there is another x prize offered for a private moon landing. here is a sample of the device of a lander that is being tested negotiation government money, none of your taxes involved, 80ive innovation driven by entrepreneurs taking the risk. competition if a car that gets 10miles per hour has drawn nearly 100 entrepreneurs. the design competition was fir
we better be careful about modified foods inindicate they are worse than existing technology. i think this world is great. t it is a veil of tears compared to what we could achieve. >> and could achieve. , thank you, matt ridley. coming up, who wants do go into space? soon we will all be able to go there. i talk about how innovation makes life better but where is the innovation coming from? politicians say from government. the big success story is america putting a man on the moon but...
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right now, dna sequencing technology allows dr. lupski to identify and expand knowledge about gene mutations present in his patients. offering clues on why and how a disease has taken over a child's body. >> the way i feel about when i see a patient or a family is, i want to treat them the same way. what i would want to know. tonight seems to me, every family wants to know what is this, and why did it happen, and what is the chances it's going to happen again. and this is important to their family planning issues. and we try our pest best to provide them to the answers toach o of the questions. one thing we've learned tremendously from dna sequencing is that many mutations can occur as new events. so it's never been passed in the family. it's happened for the first time in this individual patient. so if i get back to the questions that all parents want to know, what is this? why did it happen? and what is the chance of it happening again? often, one dna sequencing test can answer all those questions for the family. >> in dr. lupski
right now, dna sequencing technology allows dr. lupski to identify and expand knowledge about gene mutations present in his patients. offering clues on why and how a disease has taken over a child's body. >> the way i feel about when i see a patient or a family is, i want to treat them the same way. what i would want to know. tonight seems to me, every family wants to know what is this, and why did it happen, and what is the chances it's going to happen again. and this is important to...
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although address although these bodies address technology on a city wide basis technology is not treated as a distinct organizational entity and i agree. i think it should be treated as a city wide and departmental function and hr function, or the controller's function. some functions need to be centralized and others will always within within their departments. and by the way i just want to deas for members of the public and city staff it's not my perspective that we should centralize all things. clearly the department of public health needs those records and the airport needs those those things and we all have emails and there is a blend in the different activities and they should be handled a bit differently is something that we need to do. finding number 15. there is no comprehensive annual report on the state of technology within city government presented to the mayor and the board of supervisors. agree. there is no annual reporting. we supposed to have biannual reporting and just as we have annual revisions to the ten year capital plan i think ict plan would benefit from annual rev
although address although these bodies address technology on a city wide basis technology is not treated as a distinct organizational entity and i agree. i think it should be treated as a city wide and departmental function and hr function, or the controller's function. some functions need to be centralized and others will always within within their departments. and by the way i just want to deas for members of the public and city staff it's not my perspective that we should centralize all...
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i started in i-ti a technology company in the 1.0 world. it was a company that created technology to connect citizens better with government * . i ran it for almost nine years. and when i was elected to office four years ago, i was unfortunately more surprised than i wanted to be about how far behind san francisco government was. this was very 2008, 2009. with you i'm really proud of the leaps and bounds we have taken as a city * . i was proud in 2010 to help move forward legislation to really bring together city departments to work in a coordinated way with our committee on information technology. to help create a chief information officer position for the city. i was also proud to work with then mayor newsome in passing the first generation of open data legislation that we have. but as our civil grand jury in june pointed out, our i-t in san francisco is still in need of a culture shock. and this is where all of us come in today. we have 200 data sets that have already been put out there, but by and large the data sets put out by city gov
i started in i-ti a technology company in the 1.0 world. it was a company that created technology to connect citizens better with government * . i ran it for almost nine years. and when i was elected to office four years ago, i was unfortunately more surprised than i wanted to be about how far behind san francisco government was. this was very 2008, 2009. with you i'm really proud of the leaps and bounds we have taken as a city * . i was proud in 2010 to help move forward legislation to really...
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i mean yesterdays have introduced a new technologies to reduce their emissions. so not only controls the greenhouse gas emissions but even reduces them. but i want to see that america's position on greenhouse gas emissions is wrong americans are only five percent of the world's population but the us emits about twenty five percent of the world's greenhouse gas. we know that from day one the us refused to join the kyoto protocol john and they have no buying obligations. at the same time africa has a population of a billion people and yet it generates less than one tenth of the emissions america generates. so we have a very unfair situation where you have the united states on the one hand and the whole continent of africa on the other. but. if you when you you have another quote here again from a german source the spigot magazine reported recently that iran may spill all oil in the persian gulf in response to sanctions introduced by the west is it true they really have such plans because we remember how in one thousand nine hundred ninety one saddam hussein spilled
i mean yesterdays have introduced a new technologies to reduce their emissions. so not only controls the greenhouse gas emissions but even reduces them. but i want to see that america's position on greenhouse gas emissions is wrong americans are only five percent of the world's population but the us emits about twenty five percent of the world's greenhouse gas. we know that from day one the us refused to join the kyoto protocol john and they have no buying obligations. at the same time africa...
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this is truly next generation technology. it's gonna make cleaning your home a lot easier. >> that swivel head makes it much easier to make turns. >> and it moves with our hand and it just angles and turns and it picks up. >> i can get under the coffee table, around the coffee table without actually having to move the furniture. >> oh, and the maneuvering... i don't have to push it too hard, it just turns pretty much on its own. >> your new rotator lift-away cleans better, steers easily and it costs less. i guess i'm not surprised that lift-away is now the most highly recommended no loss of suction vacuum brand in america. and now it's your turn to try the next generation rotator lift-away in your own home. >> announcer: we've taken the most recommended vacuum in america and made it even better. introducing the shark rotator lift-away. better suction power. better multi-surface cleaning. better cleaning capacity. it's an upright with enhanced swivel steering and superior maneuverability. it's a portable lift-away so you can u
this is truly next generation technology. it's gonna make cleaning your home a lot easier. >> that swivel head makes it much easier to make turns. >> and it moves with our hand and it just angles and turns and it picks up. >> i can get under the coffee table, around the coffee table without actually having to move the furniture. >> oh, and the maneuvering... i don't have to push it too hard, it just turns pretty much on its own. >> your new rotator lift-away cleans...
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technology it's hard to find. some of the great. that was here back in the late one nine hundred sixty s. . teamed up. to prove the existence of the electric difference across. that was a confirmation needed to help scientists. that discovery could unlock the youth . to understand we have to look inside each. among the various. as these power. generated the. fact. mediately told him that it wasn't a very good choice in terms of the anti-oxidant but by then he already made a lot of progress with. just threw his hands up and told me that his investors wouldn't forgive him if he changed the substance halfway through and said they were going to give it a shot. it takes ten to fifteen years. unfortunately a lot of that time was lost in my opinion however no one can deny him the honor of being the first to try out our idea. since that first foreign. country with antioxidants doctor school cho and other moscow state university researchers have been hard at work coming up with the n.t. oxygen and delivery system pare the shows better result
technology it's hard to find. some of the great. that was here back in the late one nine hundred sixty s. . teamed up. to prove the existence of the electric difference across. that was a confirmation needed to help scientists. that discovery could unlock the youth . to understand we have to look inside each. among the various. as these power. generated the. fact. mediately told him that it wasn't a very good choice in terms of the anti-oxidant but by then he already made a lot of progress...
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are driving technology. that is what we witnessed in the last 10 years, and it would have been hard to predict that the consumer device cannot consumer technology used by citizens, used by the work force, would be so influential of the technology decisions being made and the overall technology agenda for government. that is the major trend, major development we look at over the past 10 years, and it is the major to the element that we look at for how to shape the next 10 years moving forward. federal workers and citizens -- they want to work the way that they are living, they want to have this in technology at work they have at home, because of works, they understand it, we talk about this all the time, but there are employees that the work still to day and they have an easier time managing their kids' soccer games, their daughter's wedding, whenever it is, there poker club -- they have a much easier time doing and that is not the way it should be. we are seeing that go away. we are seeing agencies adopting
are driving technology. that is what we witnessed in the last 10 years, and it would have been hard to predict that the consumer device cannot consumer technology used by citizens, used by the work force, would be so influential of the technology decisions being made and the overall technology agenda for government. that is the major trend, major development we look at over the past 10 years, and it is the major to the element that we look at for how to shape the next 10 years moving forward....
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over the coming year, technology will also continue to seep into objects we use everyday, take these ski goggles for example. they are what's being dubbed: intelligent objects. >> there's an absolute wow factor in the goggles because a lot of people perceive that the images are projected into the lens of the goggle on the inside but its really a screen at the bottom right corner and the screen, it looks like you're looking at a 14 inch screen from five feet away. >> reporter: from clothes designed to keep your body warm in winter, to the most highly anticipated launch of 2012, google glasses. i.m.s. research associates estimates the global market for wearable wireless devices will hit $6 billion by 2016. but a word of caution... >> just because you can embed technology just because you are able to it doesn't necessarily mean you should. you have to ensure that it truly enhances the experience. >> reporter: it looks like oakley's goggles, at least initially, are doing just that. >> there's very wealthy people coming in to get these goggles to go on a ski or snowboard trip and there's
over the coming year, technology will also continue to seep into objects we use everyday, take these ski goggles for example. they are what's being dubbed: intelligent objects. >> there's an absolute wow factor in the goggles because a lot of people perceive that the images are projected into the lens of the goggle on the inside but its really a screen at the bottom right corner and the screen, it looks like you're looking at a 14 inch screen from five feet away. >> reporter: from...
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or to commercialize the technology a company. dropped into the potential adverse side effects are much smaller. than human clinical trials had to be passed. earlier in two thousand and twelve the moment they're working on having it approved by western health agencies. are targeted. to increasingly impaired vision. blindness but these russian made drops are able to do much more. to find out how many have died as a result of. the. death. when used. they greatly decrease the number of tissue sections. as the first guinea pig. in my opinion the results pretty much speak for themselves. i'm very short sighted i started suffering from cataracts. for years. as a result of using the eye drops the cataract disappeared. down to minus three point five diopters. reduced. with russian regulatory approval in hand though has slowly but surely started getting their eyedrops to market they're attempting to go without linking up with a distributor. they've already sold twenty five thousand bottles to various pharmacies. innovators this is just the
or to commercialize the technology a company. dropped into the potential adverse side effects are much smaller. than human clinical trials had to be passed. earlier in two thousand and twelve the moment they're working on having it approved by western health agencies. are targeted. to increasingly impaired vision. blindness but these russian made drops are able to do much more. to find out how many have died as a result of. the. death. when used. they greatly decrease the number of tissue...
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we better be careful about modified foods in indicate they are worse than existing technology. i think this world is great. but it is a veil of tears compared to what we could achieve. >> and could achieve. so, thank you, matt ridley. comingp, who wants do go into space? soon we will all be able to go there. copd makes it hard to breathe, but with advair, i'm breathing better. so now i can be in the scene. advair is clinically proven to help significantly improve lung function. unlike most copd medications, advair contains both an anti-inflammatory and a long-acting bronchodilator working together to help improve your lung function all day. advair won't replace fast-acting inhalers for sudden symptoms and should not be used more than twice a day. people with copd taking advair may have a higher chance of pneumonia. advair may increase your risk of osteoporosis and some eye problems. tell your doctor if you have a heart condition or high blood pressure before taking advair. if you'rstill having difficulty breathing, ask your doctor if including advair could help improve your lun
we better be careful about modified foods in indicate they are worse than existing technology. i think this world is great. but it is a veil of tears compared to what we could achieve. >> and could achieve. so, thank you, matt ridley. comingp, who wants do go into space? soon we will all be able to go there. copd makes it hard to breathe, but with advair, i'm breathing better. so now i can be in the scene. advair is clinically proven to help significantly improve lung function. unlike...
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welcome to the technology summit. we are looking forward to a fantastic day. we are going to start with a demonstration of the wii system. it is an interactive gaming system that allows people to play different activities and participate in different fitness activities together. a lot of wii systems, about 40, are being deployed around the city to different senior centers and residents facilities to encourage older adults to get more involved with physical activity using technology. we're going to spend the first 30 minutes or so demonstrating the wii. not only will we demonstrate how to use it, but we will doe demonstrate adaptive devices so that it can be an inclusive activity for all adults and children. my name is dr. chris thompson from the university of san francisco. go, dons. 1855. i have not been there that long. i am in the department of exercise and sports science. i think it is a good match for me to be demonstrating the wii, which is a good physical activity. i am joined on the stage by a student, not from usf, but from san francisco state. we act
welcome to the technology summit. we are looking forward to a fantastic day. we are going to start with a demonstration of the wii system. it is an interactive gaming system that allows people to play different activities and participate in different fitness activities together. a lot of wii systems, about 40, are being deployed around the city to different senior centers and residents facilities to encourage older adults to get more involved with physical activity using technology. we're going...
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and, you know, always in to technology. i wanted to get back to web making to make the world better. >> uh-huh. >> and a lot of my films explored the good, the bad or -- and other people say it's making us distracted and we're not really paying tag and this stuff. i'm in the middle and i'm saying all of this amazing technology, let's talk about those and there is all of this stuff that take away from technology and by talking about them, stopping our very, very busy lives and talking. i had a future film last year that is called connected, 80 minutes long and available for the public. >> uh-huh. >> and -- and even our film, we have that whole kit. we want you to talk about this with the people closest to you. >> conversation cards. remember when you were a kid in school? flash cards, you know? >> and that is something that is low-tech and touchy feely? >> yeah. >> and makes you sit down and face somebody and talk to them, i would think. >> and there is so many amazing aspects of technology and we're all moving quickly. put
and, you know, always in to technology. i wanted to get back to web making to make the world better. >> uh-huh. >> and a lot of my films explored the good, the bad or -- and other people say it's making us distracted and we're not really paying tag and this stuff. i'm in the middle and i'm saying all of this amazing technology, let's talk about those and there is all of this stuff that take away from technology and by talking about them, stopping our very, very busy lives and...
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but if the farmers and science and technology and governance get the farmers to produce ten times as much with the same water we clearly are in a constantly changing position and we are at this point in history where seven billion and if you're a pessimist used to talk about nine and a half billion in future if you're an optimist like me you probably say eight and a half to nine billion by going to twenty fifty and it's all could because one is being an optimist and suggesting that if we are as industrious and clever as well as good stewards of water that's the important part which is hard to get people to do if we can be good stewards of water we can in fact get to twenty fifty twenty one hundred. because in a position where we we haven't destroyed the water resources but in order to do that we've got to do a whole lot of things namely in what i call a what people call the food supply chain we're going to get consumers to be sensible to consume sensibly not throw food away choose the right foods to be healthy and to keep your environment healthy make sure that the corporations in th
but if the farmers and science and technology and governance get the farmers to produce ten times as much with the same water we clearly are in a constantly changing position and we are at this point in history where seven billion and if you're a pessimist used to talk about nine and a half billion in future if you're an optimist like me you probably say eight and a half to nine billion by going to twenty fifty and it's all could because one is being an optimist and suggesting that if we are as...
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thinking about a new approach to technology, using technology differently. maybe it will be your first time in beijing with a computer. you might feel a little bit like a fish out of water. i really do understand. i am the very last person that anyone in my circle of friends and family would have ever thought would be heading up a tech company. i never thought i would either. i can tell you, it is a slippery slope once you get started on technology, so i thought i would take it a little easy and introduce you. maybe that wasn't the kind of mouse you are thinking about, how want to tell you a story. this is a mother mouse. she was walking down an alley with all of her about slayings of a lovely spring day. as she was walking down the winding road, out of the bushes comes a big cat. it charges its back and hisses, the mother mouse gathers her little children around her, and looks the cat in the eye and goes, ruff, ruff, ruff. the cat, stunned, turns and runs away. the mother bows looked down and says, let that be a lesson to you. never underestimate the power
thinking about a new approach to technology, using technology differently. maybe it will be your first time in beijing with a computer. you might feel a little bit like a fish out of water. i really do understand. i am the very last person that anyone in my circle of friends and family would have ever thought would be heading up a tech company. i never thought i would either. i can tell you, it is a slippery slope once you get started on technology, so i thought i would take it a little easy...
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we better be careful about modified foods in indicate they are worse than existing technology. i think this world is great. but it is a veil of tears compared to what we could achieve. >> and could achieve. so, thank you, matt ridley. coming up, who wants do go into space? soon we will all be able to go there. ♪ [ male announcer ] you've reached the age where you don't back down from a challenge. this is the age of knowing how to make things happen. sowhy let erectile dysfunction get in your way? talk to your doctor about viagra. 20 million men already have. ask your doctor if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take viagra if you take nitrates for chest pain; it may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. side effects include headache, flushing, upset stomach, and abnormal vision. to avoid long-term injury, seek immediate medical help for an erection lasting more than four hours. stop taking viagra and call your doctor right away if you experience a sudden decrease or loss in vision or hearing. this is the age of taking action. viagra. talk to your doctor. progresso
we better be careful about modified foods in indicate they are worse than existing technology. i think this world is great. but it is a veil of tears compared to what we could achieve. >> and could achieve. so, thank you, matt ridley. coming up, who wants do go into space? soon we will all be able to go there. ♪ [ male announcer ] you've reached the age where you don't back down from a challenge. this is the age of knowing how to make things happen. sowhy let erectile dysfunction get in...
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we better be careful about modified foods in indicate they are worse than existing technology. i think this world is great. but it is a veil of tears compared to what we could achieve. >> and could achieve. so, thank you, matt ridley. coming up, who wants do go into space? soon we will all be able to go there. >> i talk about how innovation makes life better but where is the innovation coming from? politicians say from government. the big success story is america putting a man on the moon but think about it, yes, nasa put a man on the moon but they spent billions and have not been back in 40 years. by contrast, an organization called x prize is offering a prize and now a space ship launched three people into space. they won $10 million. there is another x prize offed for a private moon landing. here is a sample of the device of a lander that is being tested negotiation government money, none of your taxes involved, 80ive innovation driven by entrepreneurs taking the risk. competition if a car that gets 100 miles per hour has drawn nearly 100 entrepreneurs. the design competitio
we better be careful about modified foods in indicate they are worse than existing technology. i think this world is great. but it is a veil of tears compared to what we could achieve. >> and could achieve. so, thank you, matt ridley. coming up, who wants do go into space? soon we will all be able to go there. >> i talk about how innovation makes life better but where is the innovation coming from? politicians say from government. the big success story is america putting a man on...
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technology it's not surprising that they were at the heart. of the best performance they're less than ideal if the patient is relatively young . as a result mechanical valves are often the way to go and that is the latest which is just the most recent evolution of these men made. the first mechanic. in one thousand fifty two. limitations. they prove that synthetic materials. improved in the one nine hundred sixty s. with the advent of the so-called. which could be implanted inside the heart itself with previous models later in the decade disc made their debut. leaflet valves at the scene but these still work perfect. whatever the position of leaflets inside the ring they create some amount of resistance. the pressure on the heart is generally as high as thirty forty or even fifty millimeters of mercury we figured out that it would be impossible to remove this obstacle as long as the leaflets were in the middle of the blood flow so we decided to place them outside the ring. for that the doctors turned to med in russia's premier hard valve maker
technology it's not surprising that they were at the heart. of the best performance they're less than ideal if the patient is relatively young . as a result mechanical valves are often the way to go and that is the latest which is just the most recent evolution of these men made. the first mechanic. in one thousand fifty two. limitations. they prove that synthetic materials. improved in the one nine hundred sixty s. with the advent of the so-called. which could be implanted inside the heart...
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systems for others it's been a lifetime of work along the mysteries of the skull check it all out on technology update we've got the future covered. something. lies beneath. thousands of meters of ice and rock. that is aloof from many. but dangerous even to those who keep it at a distance. download the. publication so choose your life stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just doesn't do so now with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. well guys it's been a long year of data mining surveillance tracking and spine big brother seems to be reared its ugly head around every corner of planet earth as you may noticed on the show i try to give a regular update on the expansion of the surveillance state two thousand and twelve seen an enormous growth of every kind of technology capable of dropping that the government cannot wait to see has any use against you and me so to help you go over the top five creepiest elements of the surveillance state joining me now is my own break into separate surmountable rob lowe hi abby hi hey it's going great
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this is kind of a good deterrent from doing it but i mean in coming years this sort of technology is just going to get less and less expensive so it's only a matter of time we might be seeing it next year or in the coming years i'm undoubtedly certain that we're going to start seeing this become kind of a regular occurrence people like you said injecting our pets with these tracking chips it's only a matter of time before we start doing it to our children and cattle manny let's talk about the taser drugs surveillance handcuffs i couldn't even make this up if i wanted to it's a handcuff that can administer a drug it can also tase you i mean seriously there it is there it is this is this is an actual patent of these of these handcuffs this. may very well be the handcuffs of the future you can administer a shock there is an accelerometer similar to what you find on your cell phone there is biometrics. doing there's a microphone in there a g.p.s. in there and the kicker it can administer drugs right into your bloodstream swiss army knife of him kind of and really it's not enough to just
this is kind of a good deterrent from doing it but i mean in coming years this sort of technology is just going to get less and less expensive so it's only a matter of time we might be seeing it next year or in the coming years i'm undoubtedly certain that we're going to start seeing this become kind of a regular occurrence people like you said injecting our pets with these tracking chips it's only a matter of time before we start doing it to our children and cattle manny let's talk about the...
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and has its roots petersburg state university of information technology mechanics . don't make incisions with the laser. cutting previously. created. the temperature could end. which they feel. above the competition. devices. that control the temperature of the being operated on. depending on the required temperature. here in st petersburg they're testing out different fiber to configurations to see which give the most ideal performance for certain. materials can be used in the tips but depending on how much of the laser light they absorb the varying temperatures. current cutting edge research takes place in st petersburg. the company's production is located all the way across the globe. just outside of boston massachusetts in the united states where the truly international team is the research and development carried out by their russian partners this allows these innovators to lean on the strengths of the individual companies. photonics is primarily responsible for innovation research development and commercialization of the product in the russian federation tonics
and has its roots petersburg state university of information technology mechanics . don't make incisions with the laser. cutting previously. created. the temperature could end. which they feel. above the competition. devices. that control the temperature of the being operated on. depending on the required temperature. here in st petersburg they're testing out different fiber to configurations to see which give the most ideal performance for certain. materials can be used in the tips but...
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technology company. and then human. moment on having it approved by. increasing the impaired vision. for these russian made drops are able to do much. to find out how many died as a result of. the. different picture when used extensively they greatly decrease the number of tissue sections. as the first guinea pig even before he got the russian regulatory. in my opinion the results pretty much speak for themselves. i'm very short sighted i started suffering from cataracts. for years. as a result of using the eye drops the cataract disappeared my myopia dropped from minus seven down to minus three point five diopters. reduced which is a science. with russian regulatory approval in hand though. but surely started getting their eyedrops to market their tinting to go without linking up with a major pharma distributor. they've already sold twenty five thousand bottles to various pharmacies. innovators this is just the first step in fact we have plans to grow into a large pharmaceutical company with products to treat. over medications will have one thing in c
technology company. and then human. moment on having it approved by. increasing the impaired vision. for these russian made drops are able to do much. to find out how many died as a result of. the. different picture when used extensively they greatly decrease the number of tissue sections. as the first guinea pig even before he got the russian regulatory. in my opinion the results pretty much speak for themselves. i'm very short sighted i started suffering from cataracts. for years. as a result...
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science technology innovation all the lives developments from around russia we. see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then something else you hear sees some other part of it and realize everything is. welcome to the big picture. the admission of free accreditation free. course is free. free is free. free. moseley braun video for your media. and free media. tom. is a. welcome to cross talk about. talking about the politics of water. and i go back to tony in london in the literature there's a term the age of easy water is over what does that mean. when the population of the world was a million that was no pressure on resources when it was a billion and about eighteen hundred it also wasn't a really very big pressure on resources although smith was raised but nothing else where the food was around the same time i did point out that we were doing difficult things to natural resources. and of course he was right but he was also wrong because as it turned out two hundred years later when the population was. six or seven billion the farmers had inc
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it was a destination point to see the new world technology. when charles dickens visited us in 1840, he was truly blown away by high water pressure on the fourth floor of the hotel he was staying in. nowhere in europe had he experienced that. this technology was doing something to support the life and the growth of the city. philadelphia, throughout the 19th century, was the major industrial city of the united states. all of these industries used water from this system. and it served as a prototype for many american cities, including pittsburgh and new york. man: new york city went to philadelphia and said, "you know, we're thinking of developing a hudson river water supply -- what do you suggest we do?" and they said, "we've had "a lot of problems on the schuylkill. "don't go to the hudson river. go to the upland and work by gravity." and that's what new york city did. they first went to the hudson highlands, but 150 years later, it went to the delaware highlands. and really diverted the water that normally went to philadelphia to new york ci
it was a destination point to see the new world technology. when charles dickens visited us in 1840, he was truly blown away by high water pressure on the fourth floor of the hotel he was staying in. nowhere in europe had he experienced that. this technology was doing something to support the life and the growth of the city. philadelphia, throughout the 19th century, was the major industrial city of the united states. all of these industries used water from this system. and it served as a...
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to be able to be -- conversant with computers and technology? that's why, i think, the investment in technology, in the internet, in broadband, in training people on that is absolutely critical to our future and the education and the specific types of education, and, finally, to the point is not diminishing the skill that these jobs required. i mean, some of my law school classmates, roommate, they say i was completely inept in making anything. ironic i wrote a book on manufacturing. i can write a brief, but i can't assemble a machine. it doesn't mean my skills is different or any better, its own market value, but somehow we frowned upon or don't appreciate the complexity of the skills required in the trade, and i think we need to both educate on technology and also have a real respect for how difficult the jobs are. >> you mentioned the importance of sustaining efforts to technology oriented education. which of our other current manufacturing facilitation initiatives do you think are really critical for us to sustain and what new initiatives wo
to be able to be -- conversant with computers and technology? that's why, i think, the investment in technology, in the internet, in broadband, in training people on that is absolutely critical to our future and the education and the specific types of education, and, finally, to the point is not diminishing the skill that these jobs required. i mean, some of my law school classmates, roommate, they say i was completely inept in making anything. ironic i wrote a book on manufacturing. i can...